December 8, 2011 During the fall of 2011, students in the Coleman Center for the Arts’ (CCA’s) Art Club learned techniques of stop-motion animation. Stop-motion is a form of animation that is most successful with objects—paper cut-outs, clay, puppets, found items—rather than drawings. A stop-motion animator makes a film by setting up a composition, taking a picture, moving the composition …
June 1, 2011 Artist Samita Sinha will be visiting throughout 2011 to collaborate with area residents in a community wide ensemble. The group will create new compositions that braid different versions of the same songs that are common to the repertoires of the area’s black and white churches, but that are arranged and performed differently. The work will provide a …
June 17, 2011 The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) held its first two week all-day summer camp in June 2011. Fifteen students from Sumter County between the ages of 8 and 19 were invited to “Be a Character” as they experimented in visual arts, music, animation, gardening and cooking. Through hourly sessions, campers investigated what it means to be, …